May 31 Watch Shields and Brooks on Sending Arms to Syria, Impending Comey Nomination Shields and Brooks on Sending Arms to Syria, Obama Taps James Comey for FBI Head… Continue watching
May 31 Watch Jordan Struggles with Next Door’s Chaos and Influx of Syrian Refugees Jordan Struggles with Next Door Neighbor's Choas and Influx of Syrian Refugees… Continue watching
May 31 Watch Leader of Free Syrian Army on Civil War’s Game Changer and Spillover Effects Leader of the Free Syrian Army on the War's Game Changer and Spillover Effects… Continue watching
May 31 Watch Presidential Push to Stop Sky-High Student Loan Interest Rates Presidential Push to Stop Sky High Student Loan Interest Rates… Continue watching
May 31 Watch Americans Still Struggling to Recover from the Recession The Obama administration announced the U.S. Medicare program is projected to remain solvent until 2026. Despite the positive sign, a Federal Reserve Study found Americans are still struggling to recover from the recession. Judy Woodruff talks with William Emmons, chief… Continue watching
May 31 Medicare Trust Fund’s Life Extended, But What Does It Really Mean? Slower growth in spending is helping extend the life of Medicare's hospital trust fund to 2026, two years beyond last year's estimate, officials said Friday. They also reported, however, that Social Security's disability trust fund, which pays monthly… Continue reading
May 31 Remembering Julian Dawkins By Larisa Epatko The PBS NewsHour lost one of our own on May 22 in the shooting death of Julian Dawkins, our 22-year-old shuttle driver. Continue reading
May 31 Investigating Bombs with Robots and Shrapnel By Ray Suarez EmbedVideo(6586, 482, 304); For Tuesday's NewsHour, Science correspondent Miles O'Brien visited the barren desert canyons of New Mexico, where investigators study explosives... by building and exploding bombs. While there, they assembled a pressure-cooker bomb -- the kind used… Continue reading
May 31 Do Americans Win or Lose When Someone Becomes a Billionaire? By Paul Solman By Paul Solman French artist Jacques Callot created 18 etchings known as "The Miseries and Misfortunes of War," published in 1633. The works depict victorious soldiers burning down villages and hanging those who lost the battle. Is the case the… Continue reading
May 31 Gwen’s Take: The Perils of the Absolute I want to own a pair of glasses that will allow me to more accurately see shades of gray. That way, when bridges fall down, the urgency to find out why -- right away -- will fade. I will more… Continue reading